The Red Letter
A Suspenseful Crime Thriller for Fans of Freida McFadden (The Orphanage by the Lake Book 2)
Published on 22. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-4642-5447-5 (ISBN)
Description
The second instalment in a new psychological crime thriller series from Daniel G. Miller offers a spine-tingling suspense thriller for fans of Freida McFadden, Charlie Donlea and Lisa Jewell.
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A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER.
Hazel has everything she wants.
Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighbourhood priest dead, along with a mysterious red letter.
Hazel investigates the murder as a favour to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried. One by one, the red letters continue to appear, and with every letter, another killing, each more mysterious than the last.
As Hazel closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on her, and Hazel begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the people around her. To make matters worse, Hazel discovers that the only way to find the truth is to open one more red letter...
Fans of Freida McFadden's The Locked Door, Charlie Donlea's The Girl Who Was Taken, and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone will love this suspenseful, haunting mystery that continues the story of bold private detective Hazel Cho.
Tropes
Psychological
Mystery Thriller
Suspense Thriller
Serial Killer
Female Private Investigator
Character-Driven
Trust No One
The Orphanage by the Lake Series:
The Orphanage by the Lake
The Red Letter
***
A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER.
Hazel has everything she wants.
Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighbourhood priest dead, along with a mysterious red letter.
Hazel investigates the murder as a favour to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried. One by one, the red letters continue to appear, and with every letter, another killing, each more mysterious than the last.
As Hazel closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on her, and Hazel begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the people around her. To make matters worse, Hazel discovers that the only way to find the truth is to open one more red letter...
Fans of Freida McFadden's The Locked Door, Charlie Donlea's The Girl Who Was Taken, and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone will love this suspenseful, haunting mystery that continues the story of bold private detective Hazel Cho.
Tropes
Psychological
Mystery Thriller
Suspense Thriller
Serial Killer
Female Private Investigator
Character-Driven
Trust No One
The Orphanage by the Lake Series:
The Orphanage by the Lake
The Red Letter
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Sourcebooks, Inc
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4642-5447-5 (9781464254475)
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Daniel G. Miller is the USA Today bestselling author of The Orphanage by the Lake and The Tree of Knowledge thriller series. When he's not writing, he enjoys sipping sunset cocktails with his wife, watching NBA basketball, and singing off-key to his newborn son, not necessarily in that order. He currently lives in Delray Beach, Florida. He loves hearing from readers, so feel free to drop him an email anytime.